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George Abdelmalik | 2 Oct 2008 03:41
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Re: boot(8) diffs

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:34:27 +0100 (BST)
Robert Swindells <rjs <at> fdy2.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> I have put some diffs to boot(8) at:
> 
> <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/rjs/boot.diff>
> 
> They add a 'multiboot' command to allow Xen to be loaded without
> needing Grub.
> 
> A review would be welcome before I commit them.
> 
> Robert Swindells

Is it known if this will make it in before netbsd-5 happens?  Seems to
have had a lot of positive comments.

-
george.
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Sam Fourman Jr. | 2 Oct 2008 04:17
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Re: boot(8) diffs

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:41 PM, George Abdelmalik
<gabdelmalik <at> avdat.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:34:27 +0100 (BST)
> Robert Swindells <rjs <at> fdy2.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have put some diffs to boot(8) at:
>>
>> <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/rjs/boot.diff>
>>
>> They add a 'multiboot' command to allow Xen to be loaded without
>> needing Grub.

is there a tutorial or a wiki that explains how to use this? I am
looking to setup a NetBSD xen dom0
with 3 hvm's how much would this change the howto on the netbsd website?

Sam Fourman Jr.
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Robert Elz | 2 Oct 2008 06:38
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Re: boot(8) diffs

    Date:        Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:41:59 +1000
    From:        George Abdelmalik <gabdelmalik <at> avdat.com.au>
    Message-ID:  <20081002114159.4dc7fceb <at> tb10>

  | On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:34:27 +0100 (BST)
  | Robert Swindells <rjs <at> fdy2.demon.co.uk> wrote:
  | > They add a 'multiboot' command to allow Xen to be loaded without
  | > needing Grub.

  | Is it known if this will make it in before netbsd-5 happens?  Seems to
  | have had a lot of positive comments.

Yes, please - I'd quite like to use Xen, but I have seen grub, and have
no desire to ever see it again ... I've been hoping for an explanation
why grub was required.   It looks like this is (effectively) it - and the
solution at the same time.

kre
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Andrew Doran | 2 Oct 2008 11:26
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Re: boot(8) diffs

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:41:59AM +1000, George Abdelmalik wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:34:27 +0100 (BST)
> Robert Swindells <rjs <at> fdy2.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I have put some diffs to boot(8) at:
> > 
> > <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/rjs/boot.diff>
> > 
> > They add a 'multiboot' command to allow Xen to be loaded without
> > needing Grub.
> > 
> > A review would be welcome before I commit them.

There is too much duplicated code in stand/lib/exec.c. Can you make some of
it common?

Andrew
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Manuel Bouyer | 2 Oct 2008 20:05

Re: boot(8) diffs

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:26:06AM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:41:59AM +1000, George Abdelmalik wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:34:27 +0100 (BST)
> > Robert Swindells <rjs <at> fdy2.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I have put some diffs to boot(8) at:
> > > 
> > > <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/rjs/boot.diff>
> > > 
> > > They add a 'multiboot' command to allow Xen to be loaded without
> > > needing Grub.
> > > 
> > > A review would be welcome before I commit them.
> 
> There is too much duplicated code in stand/lib/exec.c. Can you make some of
> it common?

And also fix the issue with dom0_mem being ignored if there isn't a dummy
parameter before it ...

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Thor Lancelot Simon | 3 Oct 2008 22:40

mpt driver on amd64?

Is anyone successfully using the mpt driver on amd64 with NetBSD-current?
With both a parallel SCSI mpt and a FibreChannel one, in systems which
were previously running FreeBSD just fine, I'm seeing continual command
timeouts.

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David Huang | 4 Oct 2008 01:30
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Re: mpt driver on amd64?


On Oct 3, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> Is anyone successfully using the mpt driver on amd64 with NetBSD- 
> current?
> With both a parallel SCSI mpt and a FibreChannel one, in systems which
> were previously running FreeBSD just fine, I'm seeing continual  
> command
> timeouts.

I have an LSI20320-R (parallel SCSI) card in a Tyan Thunder K8WE, and  
it's working fine (although the only thing I currently have connected  
is an LTO-1 tape drive). However, I do have to use an ACPI kernel-- 
IIRC, a non-ACPI kernel does the continual command timeout thing. The  
ACPI requirement seems to be fairly recent; mpt worked with a non-ACPI  
kernel in -current from earlier this year.
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Joerg Sonnenberger | 9 Oct 2008 00:03
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Re: boot(8) diffs

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 08:05:06PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> And also fix the issue with dom0_mem being ignored if there isn't a dummy
> parameter before it ...

http://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/boot.diff fixes that and allows passing
options to the dom0.

Joerg
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Joerg Sonnenberger | 9 Oct 2008 01:08
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Re: boot(8) diffs

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:03:02AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 08:05:06PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > And also fix the issue with dom0_mem being ignored if there isn't a dummy
> > parameter before it ...
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/boot.diff fixes that and allows passing
> options to the dom0.

http://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/boot3.diff is the remaining diff after the
refactoring of exec.c. This should address Andrew's and Manuel's
concerns.

Joerg
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Andrew Doran | 9 Oct 2008 21:10
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Re: boot(8) diffs

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:08:41AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:03:02AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 08:05:06PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > And also fix the issue with dom0_mem being ignored if there isn't a dummy
> > > parameter before it ...
> > 
> > http://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/boot.diff fixes that and allows passing
> > options to the dom0.
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/boot3.diff is the remaining diff after the
> refactoring of exec.c. This should address Andrew's and Manuel's
> concerns.

+struct multiboot_module {

Is this part of the multiboot spec? Are you overloading the 'module' command
for something else?

Thanks,
Andrew
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